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  • FaZe_oswald [any]
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    4 years ago

    i read a story a while back that the troops they stock at nuclear silos are typically 19 year old fuckups who get high at work, because the job of sitting in a chair all day long waiting for a call that will likely not come in is too boring for the higher-ups and the strivers and too morally questionable for the people who've been in the service for a few years already. can't find the link now but it honestly wouldn't surprise me if it were true

    • adfsadfsadfsadf [none/use name]
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      4 years ago

      I'm no expert on this topic. And I assume it's probably right at least to a certain extent. Not everybody involved is the crème de la crème. Joe Blow - a 19 year-old fuck up working in a missile silo in South Dakota - decides Trump's "nuke Iran order is bogus" and not only does he refuse the order - he surreptitiously tweets about it. The war is averted but Blow ends up totally incommunicado in military prison for dozens years under a heretofore entirely unknown above top secret law. After the the trial - only the name of the law is made public.

    • Ithorian [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      That may be who most of the staff is but there is going to be some full bird waiting out his last couple years till retirement in charge.